CHARLES ROBERT SHERMAN came to Lancaster from Norwalk, Connecticut, in the year 1810. In the winter of 1811 he returned to Connecticut to bring out his wife and infant child. In the spring of that year he, with his wife and infant son, Charles Taylor, left Connecticut on horseback, and made their way through an almost unbroken wilderness to Lancaster, during hardships and privations that only spirited and courageous people could have endured and overcome.
He opened a law office and soon rose rapidly in his profession and in the estimation of his fellow citizens, and became an eminent lawyer for that period. In the year 1823, he was elected by the Legislature a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. His associates were eminent men and to sit with them, on the Supreme bench of Ohio, was worthy of the ambition of any man.
While holding court in Lebanon, Ohio, he was taken sick, and died there in July, 1829.
During his life, Judge Sherman was the ablest and most popular man of Lancaster. He was the father of John and General William T. Sherman, and the two most distinguished brothers the United States has produced. The career of Judge Sherman and his sons has shed undying luster upon Lancaster.
